Stones Quotes - Page 14

• In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Failure, Precious Stones

  13 Copy quote

• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.

  J. L. Austin

  Philosophical, Men, Age

  4 Copy quote

• Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Reason, Lost

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 4

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

  Alice Cooper

  Running, Stars, Reading

  "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella, September 12, 2004.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Along a stream that raced and ran
  Through tangled trees and over stones,
  That long had heard the pipes o' Pan
  And shared the joys that nature owns,
  I met a fellow fisherman,
  Who greeted me in cheerful tones.
  . . . .
  Foes think the bad in him they've guessed
  And prate about the wrong they scan;
  Friends that have seen him at his best
  Believe they know his every plan;
  I know him better than the rest,
  I know him as a fisherman.

  Edgar Guest

  Believe, Thinking, Fishing

  Edgar Albert Guest, “The Fisherman”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  4 Copy quote

• Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

  Louise Hay

  Adversity, Obstacles, Stepping Stones

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 12, 2011

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lying, Flower, Precious Stones

  8 Copy quote

• Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.280, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Running, Bullets, Doe

  16 Copy quote

• It is freezing fit to split a stone.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Winter, Splits, Fit

  5 Copy quote

• Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Foundation, Frost

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Dumb

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Art, War, Iron

  "The Principles of War". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1918.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain

  Hanshan

  Moon, Night, Clouds

  12 Copy quote

• West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

  Mary Kingsley

  Today, West, Hell

  1899 West African Studies.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Men, Sea

  16 Copy quote

• Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.

  Buck Henry

  Wife, Faces, Married

  4 Copy quote

• To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  People, Use, Path

  11 Copy quote

• I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I ­support their music. Within ­country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

  Miranda Lambert

  Music, Country, Mean

  "ACM Queen Miranda Lambert Dishes on Her Good-Luck Charm for the Big Night and the Bro-Country Trend: 'There's Room for Everyone'". Interview with Chuck Arnold, www.billboard.com. April 13, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Player, Guitar

  24 Copy quote

• If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, War, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wish, Doe, Built

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.562, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Fall, Target

  4 Copy quote